Project Orion promised a spaceflight breakthrough that still sounds unreal: a spacecraft pushed forward by repeated nuclear ...

In 2028, if all goes well, NASA plans to test a new technology that could reduce trip times to the Red Planet.

When NASA announced a new Mars helicopter mission called Skyfall last week, the immediate response from most scientists had little to do with the ambitious plan to launch tiny, robotic aircraft to the ...

Could nuclear explosions reshape an entire planet? This controversial idea aims to trigger a chain reaction that could warm ...

NASA could be sending a nuclear-powered spacecraft to explore the skies of Mars in two years. The revelation about the new mission and the incredibly fast turnaround time to make it happen was mostly ...

According to the US Department of Energy, nuclear thermal propulsion can reduce travel times to Mars by up to 25% and, more importantly, limit a crew’s exposure to cosmic radiation. It would also ...

The US space agency NASA has set out a series of ambitious goals for missions, which include a return to the Moon by early 2028 as well as a Mars mission the same year utilising nuclear propulsion ...